Another Evil (Four Swords Fanfiction)

I Can't Believe I Wrote This

Shadow's Point of View:

      My Vio looked amazing. He was covered in blood, some of it dried up, and bruises, and he still had that bite mark on his chest from when he passed out and I started licking some of the blood on him off. I hadn't been able to help it. 

     Now, he sat in front of me with a pained, thoughtful expression that I still found so beautiful. He could have been doing anything and I still would be drooling over him.

     "Are you actually going to tell me about Veran?" He asked.

     "Only what she wants you to know," I stated. "After all, I'm her puppet, and a puppet can't do much with out someone pulling it's strings."

     I know I'm her puppet. Why am I doing this?

     "Then what can you tell me?" He asked.

     "I didn't say I would tell you, did I?"

     "Shadow, please, tell me..."

     "Why?" I asked. "So you can stop her? You have no use for the information--you're here forever! I won't let you go! You'll die here sooner than you'll live away from me, I missed you too much!"

     "But, Shadow...if I have no use for it, than there isn't anything wrong with you telling me."

     I knew he was trying to manipulate me. I wasn't stupid.

     She's also manipulating me, though. At least Vio has a good reason and I love him. Why am I hurting him? I don't like hurting him.

     "You are right, so I guess I'll tell you. At a price."

     He stared at me intently. "What price?"

     "You know damn well what price..." I stood up and cupped his chin so he was looking up at me. 

     "Shadow...?"

     "You have to agree to stay with me this time. You have to turn on the others, on Hyrule, you have to be loyal to me. You have to be with me and you have to love it and you can't turn traitor and then play the victim because it hurt you so much. Imagine how much it hurt me."

     "I do imagine how much it hurt you," he said. "Every single day. I think about what else I could have done, what would have happened if I succeeded, I think about how angry you must have been, how much you hated me--"

     "But you're never going to understand how I actually  felt. And it's all your fault. You know why? Because you're a traitor."

     He didn't meet my eyes anymore.

      "Stop pretending you made the right choice even though it was hard, because you never made a decision. Because you failed. And you're lucky you didn't die and that I stepped up and broke the Dark Mirror for you."

     "You didn't have to break the Dark Mirror." His voice was soft and quiet. 

     "And you didn't have to either! You son of a bitch!"

     We both broke each other's hearts trying to do the right thing. I shouldn't make him feel bad for it, I'm breaking my own heart right now.

     "I'm sorry, Shadow...I know I hurt you...but hurting me isn't going to help you."

     My little smartass is smarter than ever! He's right! Why. Am. I. Doing. This.